Out-of-Court Restructuring Strategies: Aiding Businesses of All Sizes
With operations curtailed or halted by the COVID-19 pandemic, businesses in certain sectors have an immediate need for out-of-court restructuring strategies. Speakers discuss the tools available to...
Speakers discuss the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on hotel operators. Hear about the state of the hotel industry, how brands are reacting, their cash needs, and more.
Beware the long tail of successor liability—with recent cases involving asbestos, talc, and opioids, asset acquisitions may not be as “free and clear” as they seem. Exceptions to the “rule of non-liability” have expanded over recent decades....
Restructuring is used as a tool in more and more music, entertainment, IP, and licensing deals. And, as more forms of media shift to online streaming and other new distribution mechanisms, how will reorganization and restructuring protocols value and adapt to new...
Bankruptcy provides debtors with important advantages for dealing with insolvency, but if bankruptcy is impractical or undesirable, alternatives such as ABCs, UCC Article 9 sales, and receiverships can often achieve similar results more quickly and with less...
Allegations of sexual abuse and other wrongdoing have prompted bankruptcy filings and other significant financial impacts for large non-profit institutions and other businesses. In this session, experienced attorneys will outline the customary committees, claims...
The stand-alone sale in bankruptcy of certain forms of intellectual property, namely trademarks, is now well-established. Since the dot-com bust, when website companies had few, if any, tangible assets to sell, restructuring professionals have grown accustomed to disposing of intangible assets in...
Ever since the securitization market began its exponential growth three decades ago, scholars and lawyers involved in structured finance have searched for a secular "holy grail"—a clear legal definition of a true-sale. 1 The quest is an important one. Despite its implosion in the aftermath of the...
Section 363(f) of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code enables a trustee or Chapter 11 debtor to sell its assets “free and clear of any interest in such property of an entity other than the estate,” provided it meets certain conditions. 11 U.S.C. Section 363(f). As courts have explained, “allowing sales of...
Asset sales pursuant to Section 363(b) of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code have become a common staple of complex Chapter 11 bankruptcies. Major companies such as The Rockport Co. LLC, Nine West Holdings Inc., and the Weinstein Company have all used 363 sales, as they are known in bankruptcy parlance, to...
